I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.
Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync or the Backstreet Boys or One Direction, is all good.
If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.
The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.
If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.
If my life was a song it would be, 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street.
The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.
The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.
I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.
They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.
You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.
I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.
A good song should life your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.
